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U.S. Supreme Court

Feb. 21, 2024

US Supreme Court refuses to return to diversity admissions policies – for now

UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said the court “is not ready to consider race-neutral programs that have the effect of increasing diversity.”

A U.S. Supreme Court decision on Tuesday, denying review of an appellate court ruling upholding a Virginia high school district’s admissions system that reduced the number of Asian American students to a magnet school, may have created a model for other schools and universities to follow. But advocates on both sides of the issue said the ruling, which came with a pointed dissent from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, will probabl...

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